Colin and Frances-Mary Pratt from  Optics 3D Ltd (Witney, UK) makes affordable prescription 3D glasses. They have three products: RxMono3D, RxMulti3D and RxMulti3Di. RxMono3D is a budget glasses, the RxMulti3D glasses have interchangeable polarisers so that the one pair of glasses can be used with both stereoscopic RealD and Imax 3D systems as well as sunglasses.

We announced in January "THROUGH THE NEVER 3D", the upcimng movie from Matallica rock band. Now they are releasing their first official trailer (visible here under). The 1-minute-12-seconds 720p preview combines footage of a riot breaking out in the streets with Metallica whaling it onstage, and offers a blimp of what will be the story without revealing too much.

"THROUGH THE NEVER 3D" is directed by Nimrod Antal and will be released in movie theatres on August 9, 2012 and on IMAX 3D US screens on September 27, 2013.

 Star Trek Into Darkness will be released by Paramount on Blu-ray 3D on September 24, 2013 but the disc is already available for pre-order.

«Sheep&Wolves» is a 3D animation feature from Wizart Animation (Moscow, Russia). The stereoscopic animated feature is under production now and is scheduled for theatrical release in 2D and stereoscopic 3D in winter 2014.

Story

The fan of merry-making and chasing the sheep, young wolf called The Grey is afraid of responsibility and doesn't wish to become a new leader of the pack at all. The Grey is convinced that wolves are the leaders under the sun and they need sheep only to have a full belly. But suddenly all things have changed in a magic manner. One morning The Grey wakes up in a skin of a ram and finds itself in a flock of sheep. From this moment The Grey will look at the world in a different way...

During the SID Display week 2013 held in Vancouver, Canada, on May 22-24, 2013, Dimenco (Veldhoven, The Netherlands) will exhibit a fully functional MacBook Pro Retina including a glasses-free 3D display. The display makes use of the lenticular technology, which permanently attaches a 3mm thick lens on top of a 4K resolution display panel.

You are invited to a presentation about the impact of resolution in the auto-stereoscopic domain on May 23 at 1:40 p.m. Maarten Tobias, CEO of Dimenco, looks forward to sharing experiences in person. At the same time, Dimenco announces lowered prices on their 23", 42", and 55" glasses-free displays.

North Brother Island is an enigmatic no man's land, lying in the East River between the Bronx and Riker's Island (New-York, USA). Matthew Schlanger, a Nyack, (NY, USA) resident with a sailboat and a keen sense of adventure, accompanied a friend to visit the abandoned chunk of land back in 2007.

Matthew Schlanger brought along a stereoscopic 3D camera, and later decided to turn the series of photographs into the book available now available as an e-book ready to be downloaded to your iPad.

Ford’s 3D CAVE allows the brand to test and refine thousands of details of new car designs from the size and position of a cup-holder to rear-window visibility.

Designers and engineers at Ford are able to assess new cars before they're made thanks to the two company's 3D CAVE facilities located in Merkenich, Germany and in Dearborn, USA. Watch here under a demonstration on how the 3D stereoscopic CAVE works.

Legacy of the Gods is a 3D stereoscopic documentary in the making right now in 2013. The Nepal segment of the film was presented on May 17, 2013 at the Cannes Festival. Release date in not yet confirmed but is expected sometimes in 2014.

Stunning 3D footage, never-before experienced areal shots taken from remote-controlled multicopters, frame rates of 48 fps (frames per second) or more, ensuring "Hobbit-like" rock-steady images and the 7.1 multi channel Dolby surround sound make this film the forerunner of a brand new genre.

A Documentary like no other

… All around the globe, Jochen Breitenstein and his team at CineMonde (San Diego, USA and München, Germany) find sites of worship, testimony and clues to the depth of human faith and reverence – the bow before the Creator. And as different the testimonies and clues to profound faith may manifest themselves in the cultures of different peoples, it still appears as if they all had one common origin … BECAUSE EVERYTHING THAT DIVIDES US FROM ONE ANOTHER ALSO UNITES US!

Ancient churches, carved right out of the mountain side, mystical temple ruins in the middle of a dense jungle, elegant mosques amid the hustle and bustle of Souks, stirring processions in honor of the Blessed Virgin, mixed with heathen elements, archaic cremations beside sacred rivers, lively monasteries in the Himalayas and gigantic necropolis in the desert – all of them sites of human devotion.

After Boston last year, the SID Display Week is back but this time it will be in Vancouver, Canada from May 19 to 23, 2013 with a lot of talks about 3D displays (stereoscopic, holographic,...). Many topics are covered such as OLED and interactivity, but we are more interested in the 3D docus:

The 3D special topic will focus on display technologies for enabling depth perception in viewers, applications for 3D displays, 3D content generation, measurement and characterization of 3D systems, and their human factors. For those coming to Display Week 2013 to learn all about this emerging technology and how it will shape of the displays of the future, the large list of activities visible here under is intended to guide you through the Display Week 3D Topic.

For a limited time, the Windows compatible screensaver "Live aquarium HD" by Ashampoo is offered for a (very) reduced price. We got our copy for 3.99$. "Live aquarium HD" is a nice live aquarium rendered in CGI on any screen size, including on multiple monitors (we tested it on a triple-Full HS setup). It has a lots of options including sound, music, and a couple of anaglyph stereoscopic modes. Info and video demo here under.

Japan Display has developed a 12.2-inch (30cm) diagonal high resolution LCD display panel switchable between true 2D and true 3D autostereoscopic modes. By employing a variable parallax barrier to show stereoscopic 3D images without glasses, Japan Display enabled to switch between 2D and 3D display modes and to change the viewing direction of 3D images. Also, to optimize the 3D viewing area, the company synchronized the variable parallax barrier with a head-tracking system.

The 2D/3D switchable LCD display can be used in car navigation systems, in order to track the driver's head position and produce the appropriate 3D images. This display resolution in 2D-mode is 720 HD (1920 x 720 pixels), becoming in 3D-mode a still very comfortable (dual) 960 x 720 pixels.

x3D Player is a lightweight video player from Surodev (Braila, Romania) for Windows that comes with 3D support, enabling you to watch stereoscopic videos and movies. The program's interface is simple, comprising only the basic playback options, such as play, stop and pause, the volume icon and the full-screen button. Version 1.5.8 was released on May 13, 2013.

Like most of us, you are tired of that cardboarding effect we are seeing in so many stereoscopic 3D movies -converted or native- and you want to avoid it at all cost in your own movies?

Phil Streather, 3D stereoscopic movies producer and consultant will speak about "Make your 3D satisfyingly deep and voluminous!" this May 20^th, 2013 from 4pm - 5.15pm at the Watershed Cultural cinema in Bristol, UK in the scope of the "3D film session". 

Imagine Romeo and Juliet living on twinned worlds with gravities that pull in opposite directions—he on the poverty-stricken planet below, she on the wealthy, exploitative world above. UPSIDE DOWN is a visually stunning romantic adventure that poses the question: what if love was stronger than gravity?
Stunning visuals but a sometimes flawed scenario means critics have mixed feelings about the movie. But the good news are that the stunning visuals will be available in stereoscopic 3D on Blu-ray 3D from June 2013.

"Visual eye-candy from start to finish neves ceases to amaze"